Meditation: Healing, Peace, Silence Decades ago, when a teacher says so loss of human life without practicing meditation, no doubt in here. However, after practicing meditation slowly slowly, it turns out the teacher was right advice. Health, peace, happiness, freedom and even silence can be the fruit of meditation.
Daniel Goleman of Harvard rather far in examining the relationship of meditation to health. The key point lies in the direct effect of meditation on the immune system. When the immune system improves, what more perfect, then it could be made better health.
Tulku Thondup in The Healing Power of Mind (Shambala 1998) are brighter again. One of the key thesis of this book reads: "Accepting without blaming is the true turning point of healing". In contrast to the path of healing is generally a waste a lot of things, the acceptance of this approach is the turning point of healing. And meditation, one is the acceptance of his life.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in The Joy of Living (Harmony Books 2006) have a simple thesis. Joy not only to heal spiritually, as well as biological cure. Hence in this work was written the concept of The Biology of Compassion. Compassion is not only faced the spiritual, but also have an impact on the biological health. Through meditation, slowly slowly become compassionate human beings.
Bernie Siegel in Peace, Love and Healing (Rider 1999), one of the chapters titled The Physiology of Love, Joy and Optimism. It turned out that love, joy, faith healing efforts substantially help the body. As experienced by many practitioners of meditation, love, joy, confidence will grow by itself in line with the progress of meditation.
Matter of direct influence of meditation on peace, happiness and silence, he has been proven by many yogis for thousands of years. For those who practice meditation are profound - the more so was often resting in samadhi (concentration) - could see firsthand that grief, sorrow, sorrow is the result of an untrained mind.
That is why, one definition of meditation is at once simple and basic: to Meditate is to familiarize. Meditation is to familiarize the mind. From the monkey mind (which skipping is not satisfied, it is unclear to everywhere) to the mind of a lion. Hence the symbol of enlightenment is one of the lion because the lion sitting quietly in the jungle does not frighten anything. Including not scare of death.
Membadankan meditation
The sense is simple, but membadankannya takes time, perseverance and patience enough. As a first step, there are four approaches membadankan meditation.
1. Aspiration, there is a strong intention to practice meditation. Various ways of life open the door of meditation. There are not terminally ill, there is prolonged stress, there is frustration and thither seeking and not found, there also was interested in meditation without having to wait for the problem. But whatever the door opening, interested in learning meditation, it's a good first step
.
2. Habituation, the intention is then dibadankan meditation through a series of habits in everyday life. If not could one hour every day, start with half an hour a day. If you can not touch the concentration now, keep trying. When you find a balance to ride a bike just takes time, what else meditation.
3. Commitment, without any commitment to change is not possible. Keep practicing meditation. Have not met a suitable teacher, has not met the right technique, have not had adequate time and opportunity, all that is no reason. Do continue meditation. Like a long journey, step continuously. Sometimes it the wrong way, or even lost for a while. But the experience of a wrong turn and lost it will be very useful later.
4. Consystency, it drops like a stone with water. When the stone etched with water a few days, he did not produce anything. Conversely, any stone will decay when water spilled continuously for many years. Meditation is also similar. He was not the work daily, not monthly, but annual job that must be done consistently over the years.
Barrier strength, the strength of the opening
Like entering a new territory, meditation is also full of obstacles. From a physical barrier (the body that is weak and tired), psychiatric (laziness, doubt, fear) to hitch concept. Physical barriers are usually resolved with a lot of exercise and maintain the quality of one's diet. Psychological obstacles can be penetrated with a lot of reading, meet the teacher, the experience of others. And the toughest obstacle is the barrier concept. From the concept of negative obstacles (contrary to religion, meditation can make someone so mad, etc.), until the obstacle is a positive concept (that meditation should be so and so, meditation should be calm, must always be reconciled). In fact (as will be detailed in more depth below), meditation like the weather up there. There is never a cloudy weather that always, or always lit.
Therefore, it is easier to enter the gates of meditation when someone has an open mind (open mindedness). Hence, one reads the meaning of meditation: to Meditate is to take a rest. Meditation is resting entirely on what is happening today. And the rest of this work, is more easily done when one enters the gates of meditation without this concept without that concept. Without the hope of meditation to be this way, meditation should be so.
Initially the concept of necessary
As the journey started, first we need a map and compass travel (read: the concept). That is why, those who are new to the meditation will be asked to sit cross-legged with the back of the neck straight, eyes slightly opened, the object of attention (concentration) can be centered on the breath or abdominal movement. For those who harassed a lot of anger and hatred are asked reflect the essence of life filled with kindness and love of others. He is a raging sexual desires are asked to reflect on the human body is disgusting. Novice practitioners whose mind is difficult to concentrate will be assisted with a variety of tools.
Included in the approach to this concept, many practitioners of meditation that uses state of mind which centered neatly (without moving) in a point as the destination. Good approach, it will encourage the direction of travel, danger, he had aroused a sense of frustration on the practitioners of meditation in the amount not counted.
As a simple suggestion, for the novice practitioner please use these concepts as a map and compass travel. But be aware from the beginning, map and compass only a tool, not an end in itself. Attached to insist that the meditation to be this way and should be so (in accordance with the concept) makes a person fails berisitirahat at this time. Conversely, meditation instead creating tension (stress) new.
At a time when meditation has begun to become a habit, especially one with each step everyday, there is required a leap to get out of the concept. In the language of a teacher: "Effort is Necessary When We are not Proficient". Before membadan meditation in everyday life, humans require effort, effort, guidance and concepts. Conversely, when it was fused with daily meditation, jump from the effort (effort) becomes effortless (natural, spontaneous, authentic, without a concept).
Free from the concept
Realizing the nature of the concept of creating tension and these new shackles, then contemplated entering the gates worthy of meditation without a concept. Some call meditation as a jorney without goals. A journey without hope.
Many people are frustrated by meditation constrained because of rigid and stubborn hope that after all these years of practicing meditation the mind can be tied tightly to stop running all over the place. The harder they try to tie it, the more frustrating journey meditation.
And if the contemplated deeply, the nature of unenlightened mind is running. He is as simple as a wavy ocean, water is wet and fire is hot. Forcing the unenlightened mind to stop running, just by forcing the ocean to avoid bumpy, forcing the water so as not to wet, forcing the fire so as not to heat. He not only unnatural, too frustrating.
For this reason, it is important to break the current by letting everything is open it is. Water of course is wet, fire hot, of course. Hence there is a meditation teacher murmured softly: "There is nothing to be changed in meditation". The only thing that needs to be "changed" is the quality of one's awareness on what is happening.
Characterize the practice of meditation practitioners have deep consciousness, he is no longer preoccupied with the way things are attached to the positive and reject negative things, celebrate the joy and aggravation kicked. As the weather up there, there are times clouds, sometimes bright. Only openness to embrace all of what makes a person adanyalah can rest neatly on today.
When the daily that has been embraced neatly with the current, then met with good savings (accumulation of merit) is sufficient, and experience together in silence (accumulation of wisdom), there just might open the possibility of the birth of the mind lion (lion mind) that sits neatly is not frighten anything.
Liberation of the first and last
As a simple summary (but do not need to shackle), the journey of meditation can be abstracted into the following three steps:
1. The journey begins with learning to meditate more often in contact with the serenity and balance (samatha). There samatha who assisted the object (the breath, abdominal movement, etc.), there is also samatha without object. Only a break at this point what it is. The main characteristic of samatha, he tempt someone to happy and comfortable stay there forever. As an initial step healing of physical disease, it helps create immunity began to improve. In terms of net negative emotions a person would (ignorance, greed, anger), samatha is cut off all branches and tree trunks negative emotions. But the roots have not been deprived of what else was burned. At this point, too, often a number of experienced practitioners abilities 'more' like a person could read minds, see the future and kind. Be careful not to stop here. Stop here means stuck in the middle of the road. Leaving the tranquility, a comfortable balance was not easy. But at this point that required courage, determination to get out of the comfort of samatha.
2. When in samatha someone still has something you like, in Vipashana (insight) the practitioner learns to not cling to things fun, do not reject things annoying. More perfect balance of serenity of samatha, at the level of human Vipashana learn to see what appears like a cloud appeared and disappeared. The nice white clouds, black clouds are annoying, they appear not disappeared forever. Anyone who has this membadankan deep, old-old will like the sky (as a symbol Vipashana). Not make the sky white clouds so white, not black clouds make the sky turn black. Whatever happens the sky remains blue, wide unlimited. In terms of cleanliness of the negative emotions a person would, at this stage not only the tree trunks and branches of negative emotions have been cut down, the whole root of the tree had been removed and burned. Sometimes there are tempted to call this enlightenment. It has not. More specifically, the condition is often called: "It's purified but not perfected". The mind had been purified through the practice Vipashana blue sky. But he has not been perfected.
3. Completion of a mind that has experienced insight through the practice of the six perfection: the perfection of giving, ethical perfection, the perfection of patience, the perfection of the spirit, the perfection of concentration, the perfection of silence (emptiness). Perfection of the first five (giving, ethics, patience, enthusiasm and concentration) is like stepping foot into the goal. Sixth perfection (silence or emptiness) is similar to the eye that guides the journey. Hence there is mention, a silence that is not embraced by the love was never taught as a way of enlightenment. As food for thought earlier, just perfect stillness when filled with compassion (as the essence of five of perfection). New affection perfectly if done in silence (read: without ego). He is the two wings of silence and affection are as strong, at the time of death will be similar fate eagle child. Once the eggs were broken, he immediately flew freely into the nature of enlightenment .*)
*) In Tantra, one of the available approaches in explaining the journey of four yoga meditation is Mahamudera. First called one-pointedness. At this stage, one can rest in peace-balance as long as he wants. Second, the simplicity (simplicity). At this level, practitioners of meditation begin to be as simple as baby rest (arbor) on the minds of ordinary (ordinary mind). Third, one taste the meaning of all dualities (good-bad, right and wrong, holy, dirty, etc.) loses his grip, then make it all into one flavor (no longer two flavors). Borrowing Lama Zopa Rinpoche's opinion: "In Shunyata (complete silence) are all one flavor". Fourth, once perfected one taste, the practitioner of meditation and then walked to nonmeditation. At this stage, all dualities remain (dualistic fixation), customs, frameworks and concepts disappear. Nothing else needs to be dug, no more to be achieved. Someone had reached the end of the trip. What needs to be purified is purified, what need has been perfected perfected. Everything becomes meditation. Primarily by maintaining a state of mind is not disturbed (undistracted mind). Hence, the technical term "short moments repeated many times". Every day, try to return "break" on what is happening at the moment. Short time but often do. When done over a long time - what more is too long - the concept tend to be raped.
In addition to the four yoga Mahamudra, Tantric journey can also be simplified into two: Trekcho and Togal. In Trekcho, all dualities (good-Burk, holy-dirty, success-failure, etc.) to be exceeded. When all duality is exceeded, direct someone to the top of the mountain Togal. The sign, from the beginning that has no beginning (beginningless beginning) until the end of an endless (endless endings) everything is perfect as is.Meditation: Healing, Peace, Silence
Daniel Goleman of Harvard rather far in examining the relationship of meditation to health. The key point lies in the direct effect of meditation on the immune system. When the immune system improves, what more perfect, then it could be made better health.
Tulku Thondup in The Healing Power of Mind (Shambala 1998) are brighter again. One of the key thesis of this book reads: "Accepting without blaming is the true turning point of healing". In contrast to the path of healing is generally a waste a lot of things, the acceptance of this approach is the turning point of healing. And meditation, one is the acceptance of his life.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in The Joy of Living (Harmony Books 2006) have a simple thesis. Joy not only to heal spiritually, as well as biological cure. Hence in this work was written the concept of The Biology of Compassion. Compassion is not only faced the spiritual, but also have an impact on the biological health. Through meditation, slowly slowly become compassionate human beings.
Bernie Siegel in Peace, Love and Healing (Rider 1999), one of the chapters titled The Physiology of Love, Joy and Optimism. It turned out that love, joy, faith healing efforts substantially help the body. As experienced by many practitioners of meditation, love, joy, confidence will grow by itself in line with the progress of meditation.
Matter of direct influence of meditation on peace, happiness and silence, he has been proven by many yogis for thousands of years. For those who practice meditation are profound - the more so was often resting in samadhi (concentration) - could see firsthand that grief, sorrow, sorrow is the result of an untrained mind.
That is why, one definition of meditation is at once simple and basic: to Meditate is to familiarize. Meditation is to familiarize the mind. From the monkey mind (which skipping is not satisfied, it is unclear to everywhere) to the mind of a lion. Hence the symbol of enlightenment is one of the lion because the lion sitting quietly in the jungle does not frighten anything. Including not scare of death.
Membadankan meditation
The sense is simple, but membadankannya takes time, perseverance and patience enough. As a first step, there are four approaches membadankan meditation.
1. Aspiration, there is a strong intention to practice meditation. Various ways of life open the door of meditation. There are not terminally ill, there is prolonged stress, there is frustration and thither seeking and not found, there also was interested in meditation without having to wait for the problem. But whatever the door opening, interested in learning meditation, it's a good first step
.
2. Habituation, the intention is then dibadankan meditation through a series of habits in everyday life. If not could one hour every day, start with half an hour a day. If you can not touch the concentration now, keep trying. When you find a balance to ride a bike just takes time, what else meditation.
3. Commitment, without any commitment to change is not possible. Keep practicing meditation. Have not met a suitable teacher, has not met the right technique, have not had adequate time and opportunity, all that is no reason. Do continue meditation. Like a long journey, step continuously. Sometimes it the wrong way, or even lost for a while. But the experience of a wrong turn and lost it will be very useful later.
4. Consystency, it drops like a stone with water. When the stone etched with water a few days, he did not produce anything. Conversely, any stone will decay when water spilled continuously for many years. Meditation is also similar. He was not the work daily, not monthly, but annual job that must be done consistently over the years.
Barrier strength, the strength of the opening
Like entering a new territory, meditation is also full of obstacles. From a physical barrier (the body that is weak and tired), psychiatric (laziness, doubt, fear) to hitch concept. Physical barriers are usually resolved with a lot of exercise and maintain the quality of one's diet. Psychological obstacles can be penetrated with a lot of reading, meet the teacher, the experience of others. And the toughest obstacle is the barrier concept. From the concept of negative obstacles (contrary to religion, meditation can make someone so mad, etc.), until the obstacle is a positive concept (that meditation should be so and so, meditation should be calm, must always be reconciled). In fact (as will be detailed in more depth below), meditation like the weather up there. There is never a cloudy weather that always, or always lit.
Therefore, it is easier to enter the gates of meditation when someone has an open mind (open mindedness). Hence, one reads the meaning of meditation: to Meditate is to take a rest. Meditation is resting entirely on what is happening today. And the rest of this work, is more easily done when one enters the gates of meditation without this concept without that concept. Without the hope of meditation to be this way, meditation should be so.
Initially the concept of necessary
As the journey started, first we need a map and compass travel (read: the concept). That is why, those who are new to the meditation will be asked to sit cross-legged with the back of the neck straight, eyes slightly opened, the object of attention (concentration) can be centered on the breath or abdominal movement. For those who harassed a lot of anger and hatred are asked reflect the essence of life filled with kindness and love of others. He is a raging sexual desires are asked to reflect on the human body is disgusting. Novice practitioners whose mind is difficult to concentrate will be assisted with a variety of tools.
Included in the approach to this concept, many practitioners of meditation that uses state of mind which centered neatly (without moving) in a point as the destination. Good approach, it will encourage the direction of travel, danger, he had aroused a sense of frustration on the practitioners of meditation in the amount not counted.
As a simple suggestion, for the novice practitioner please use these concepts as a map and compass travel. But be aware from the beginning, map and compass only a tool, not an end in itself. Attached to insist that the meditation to be this way and should be so (in accordance with the concept) makes a person fails berisitirahat at this time. Conversely, meditation instead creating tension (stress) new.
At a time when meditation has begun to become a habit, especially one with each step everyday, there is required a leap to get out of the concept. In the language of a teacher: "Effort is Necessary When We are not Proficient". Before membadan meditation in everyday life, humans require effort, effort, guidance and concepts. Conversely, when it was fused with daily meditation, jump from the effort (effort) becomes effortless (natural, spontaneous, authentic, without a concept).
Free from the concept
Realizing the nature of the concept of creating tension and these new shackles, then contemplated entering the gates worthy of meditation without a concept. Some call meditation as a jorney without goals. A journey without hope.
Many people are frustrated by meditation constrained because of rigid and stubborn hope that after all these years of practicing meditation the mind can be tied tightly to stop running all over the place. The harder they try to tie it, the more frustrating journey meditation.
And if the contemplated deeply, the nature of unenlightened mind is running. He is as simple as a wavy ocean, water is wet and fire is hot. Forcing the unenlightened mind to stop running, just by forcing the ocean to avoid bumpy, forcing the water so as not to wet, forcing the fire so as not to heat. He not only unnatural, too frustrating.
For this reason, it is important to break the current by letting everything is open it is. Water of course is wet, fire hot, of course. Hence there is a meditation teacher murmured softly: "There is nothing to be changed in meditation". The only thing that needs to be "changed" is the quality of one's awareness on what is happening.
Characterize the practice of meditation practitioners have deep consciousness, he is no longer preoccupied with the way things are attached to the positive and reject negative things, celebrate the joy and aggravation kicked. As the weather up there, there are times clouds, sometimes bright. Only openness to embrace all of what makes a person adanyalah can rest neatly on today.
When the daily that has been embraced neatly with the current, then met with good savings (accumulation of merit) is sufficient, and experience together in silence (accumulation of wisdom), there just might open the possibility of the birth of the mind lion (lion mind) that sits neatly is not frighten anything.
Liberation of the first and last
As a simple summary (but do not need to shackle), the journey of meditation can be abstracted into the following three steps:
1. The journey begins with learning to meditate more often in contact with the serenity and balance (samatha). There samatha who assisted the object (the breath, abdominal movement, etc.), there is also samatha without object. Only a break at this point what it is. The main characteristic of samatha, he tempt someone to happy and comfortable stay there forever. As an initial step healing of physical disease, it helps create immunity began to improve. In terms of net negative emotions a person would (ignorance, greed, anger), samatha is cut off all branches and tree trunks negative emotions. But the roots have not been deprived of what else was burned. At this point, too, often a number of experienced practitioners abilities 'more' like a person could read minds, see the future and kind. Be careful not to stop here. Stop here means stuck in the middle of the road. Leaving the tranquility, a comfortable balance was not easy. But at this point that required courage, determination to get out of the comfort of samatha.
2. When in samatha someone still has something you like, in Vipashana (insight) the practitioner learns to not cling to things fun, do not reject things annoying. More perfect balance of serenity of samatha, at the level of human Vipashana learn to see what appears like a cloud appeared and disappeared. The nice white clouds, black clouds are annoying, they appear not disappeared forever. Anyone who has this membadankan deep, old-old will like the sky (as a symbol Vipashana). Not make the sky white clouds so white, not black clouds make the sky turn black. Whatever happens the sky remains blue, wide unlimited. In terms of cleanliness of the negative emotions a person would, at this stage not only the tree trunks and branches of negative emotions have been cut down, the whole root of the tree had been removed and burned. Sometimes there are tempted to call this enlightenment. It has not. More specifically, the condition is often called: "It's purified but not perfected". The mind had been purified through the practice Vipashana blue sky. But he has not been perfected.
3. Completion of a mind that has experienced insight through the practice of the six perfection: the perfection of giving, ethical perfection, the perfection of patience, the perfection of the spirit, the perfection of concentration, the perfection of silence (emptiness). Perfection of the first five (giving, ethics, patience, enthusiasm and concentration) is like stepping foot into the goal. Sixth perfection (silence or emptiness) is similar to the eye that guides the journey. Hence there is mention, a silence that is not embraced by the love was never taught as a way of enlightenment. As food for thought earlier, just perfect stillness when filled with compassion (as the essence of five of perfection). New affection perfectly if done in silence (read: without ego). He is the two wings of silence and affection are as strong, at the time of death will be similar fate eagle child. Once the eggs were broken, he immediately flew freely into the nature of enlightenment .*)
*) In Tantra, one of the available approaches in explaining the journey of four yoga meditation is Mahamudera. First called one-pointedness. At this stage, one can rest in peace-balance as long as he wants. Second, the simplicity (simplicity). At this level, practitioners of meditation begin to be as simple as baby rest (arbor) on the minds of ordinary (ordinary mind). Third, one taste the meaning of all dualities (good-bad, right and wrong, holy, dirty, etc.) loses his grip, then make it all into one flavor (no longer two flavors). Borrowing Lama Zopa Rinpoche's opinion: "In Shunyata (complete silence) are all one flavor". Fourth, once perfected one taste, the practitioner of meditation and then walked to nonmeditation. At this stage, all dualities remain (dualistic fixation), customs, frameworks and concepts disappear. Nothing else needs to be dug, no more to be achieved. Someone had reached the end of the trip. What needs to be purified is purified, what need has been perfected perfected. Everything becomes meditation. Primarily by maintaining a state of mind is not disturbed (undistracted mind). Hence, the technical term "short moments repeated many times". Every day, try to return "break" on what is happening at the moment. Short time but often do. When done over a long time - what more is too long - the concept tend to be raped.
In addition to the four yoga Mahamudra, Tantric journey can also be simplified into two: Trekcho and Togal. In Trekcho, all dualities (good-Burk, holy-dirty, success-failure, etc.) to be exceeded. When all duality is exceeded, direct someone to the top of the mountain Togal. The sign, from the beginning that has no beginning (beginningless beginning) until the end of an endless (endless endings) everything is perfect as is.Meditation: Healing, Peace, Silence